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Re: Which variable expands to /var?
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Ralf Wildenhues |
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Re: Which variable expands to /var? |
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Fri, 8 Feb 2008 08:08:25 +0100 |
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Hello,
* Eric Blake wrote on Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 03:36:21AM CET:
> According to Keith Marshall on 2/7/2008 3:57 PM:
> |
> | Wouldn't `--enable-fhs' be a better fit with the GCS dictum on how
> | `--enable-*' and `--use-*' options are to be applied?
>
> I think the idea has merit; it seems like we would provide a macro
> AC_ENABLE_FHS, which if invoked, will add the --enable-fhs
> ./configure-time option (or should we provide --enable-fhs
> unconditionally?).
Maybe I'm being dense, but there are lots of users complaining that
configure already has far too many options. And you want to introduce
yet another one as a shortcut for either
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=var \
--sharedstatedir=/var
or
cat >path/to/config.site <<EOF
# Change to FHS defaults if installing below /usr, and the
# respective other settings have not been changed on the command line.
if test "$prefix" = /usr; then
test "$sysconfdir" = '$prefix/etc' && localstatedir=/etc
test "$sharedstatedir" = '$prefix/com' && sharedstatedir=/var
test "$localstatedir" = '$prefix/var' && localstatedir=/var
fi
EOF
(where the latter is even a one-time operation)?
May I ask why? I don't get it. If this needs better documentation, the
let's put it up somewhere visible. But really, if anything then
configure options should be made more orthogonal, not even more
overlapping.
Thanks for enlightening me.
Ralf
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- Re: Which variable expands to /var?, Bernd Jendrissek, 2008/02/07
- Re: Which variable expands to /var?, Jules Colding, 2008/02/07
- Re: Which variable expands to /var?, Eric Blake, 2008/02/07
- Re: Which variable expands to /var?, Jules Colding, 2008/02/07
- Re: Which variable expands to /var?, Bernd Jendrissek, 2008/02/07
- Re: Which variable expands to /var?, Paul Smith, 2008/02/07
- Re: Which variable expands to /var?, Keith Marshall, 2008/02/07
- Re: Which variable expands to /var?, Eric Blake, 2008/02/07
- Re: Which variable expands to /var?, Brian Dessent, 2008/02/07
- Re: Which variable expands to /var?,
Ralf Wildenhues <=
- Re: Which variable expands to /var?, Ralf Wildenhues, 2008/02/08
- Re: Which variable expands to /var?, Eric Blake, 2008/02/08
- Re: Which variable expands to /var?, Ralf Wildenhues, 2008/02/08
- Re: Which variable expands to /var?, Eric Blake, 2008/02/08
- Re: Which variable expands to /var?, Bob Friesenhahn, 2008/02/08
- Re: Which variable expands to /var?, Ralf Wildenhues, 2008/02/08
- Re: Which variable expands to /var?, Bob Friesenhahn, 2008/02/08
- Re: Which variable expands to /var?, Ralf Wildenhues, 2008/02/07
- Re: Which variable expands to /var?, Bob Friesenhahn, 2008/02/07